Welcome to prayers4today, a place of silence, prayer, and solitude. If you would like your name or need added to my own daily prayers (not shared on this site!), email tshuman@cinci.rr.com I have two other blogs: www.occasionalsightings.blogspot.com (observations); www.lectionaryliturgies.blogspot.com. These prayers may be used in worship settings or newsletters, with attribution please.

Monday, October 15, 2007

nine out of ten

nine out of ten hours,i am hard at work,chained to my computer,addicted to meetings,drowning in expectations -then you show up,interrupting my stress,saying, 'they need us downat the soup kitchen - let's go!'

nine out of ten timesi am patting myself on the backfor all i do for you,racking up pointson salvation's scoreboard -then you hand mea bouquet of grace,whispering, 'have you stoppedand smelled these lately?'

pompous,swollen-headed,full of myself,i am like nine out of ten people -let this be the one timeand then the next timeand the next . . .